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	'<{title}>' => 'Pickles in soup',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/06/04.jpg" alt="An alternate route to work" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You&apos;re exactly right.
			There&apos;s no reason why the mailboxes on disk would need to be in a specific format for the emails they contain to be retrievable over $a[POP3].
			A good comparison would be Web servers and filesystems.
			Most Web servers run Linux, using one ext filesystem or another, usually $a[ext4].
			Windows and OS X machines don&apos;t know how to read ext-based filesystems at all, and yet they can still use a Web browser to retrieve and interpret files from a Linux-based Web server.
			What matters to the client is the transmission format, not the on-disk storage format.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="soup">
	<p>
		The other day, I did a Web search on pickle juice.
		My intent was to see if that was actually what it&apos;s called before posting a <a href="/en/recipe/dill_pickle_ranch_dressing.xhtml">recipe</a> that included it.
		I mean, it&apos;s not actually juice from the pickles, or even a juice at all.
		It&apos;s mostly vinegar, water, and salt.
		I figured there was a chance the people in my area were just strange for calling it that, and maybe people from the other side of the Web wouldn&apos;t know what I was talking about.
		Maybe &quot;pickle brine&quot; would be a better term for conveying what I meant to.
	</p>
	<p>
		Nope.
		It&apos;s just pickle juice.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, my search turned up a couple other things too.
		First, there were articles on the health benefits of drinking pickle juice.
		Some people claim certain benefits based on its content, and some of those claims aren&apos;t valid.
		For example, one claim is that because pickles are a food that is fragmented in bacteria, the juice is full of probiotics.
		However, most modern pickles are instead soaked in vinegar.
		The probiotic content, if any, is minimal.
		That is, unless you buy your pickles from the refrigerated isle, where fermented pickles that need to be refrigerated even before opening the jar can be found.
		I&apos;ve got to wonder.
		Isn&apos;t the purpose of pickling to <strong>*preserve*</strong> the food being pickled?
		If it can&apos;t even keep in a sealed jar, what&apos;s the point of the pickling process?
		That said, if you&apos;re looking for probiotics, I guess you can get them from the fermented variety of pickles.
	</p>
	<p>
		The other main thing I ran across was &quot;dill pickle soup&quot;.
		It&apos;s more of a pickle and potato soup, but it sounded delicious.
		Later, I started looking into recipes so I could try making it myself, and most of them were decidedly non-herbivoristic.
		I did find a <a href="https://www.connoisseurusveg.com/vegan-dill-pickle-potato-chowder/">pickle potato chowder recipe by Alissa Saenz</a> though, which looks pretty good.
		It&apos;s written using imperial volume units though, meaning I have no measuring vessels at home with which to try out the exact recipe with.
		I also don&apos;t like to add oil to my soups, so I left that out as well.
		I ended up doing my usual thing, not measuring anything, and just putting the ingredients together.
		I expected the soup wouldn&apos;t be as good as it could be, but would still be fairly good, giving me an idea of what the soup tasted like.
		If I liked it, I could try to fine-tune it to actually taste the way it was supposed to.
	</p>
	<p>
		The soup didn&apos;t go well at all though.
		I was completely unimpressed, and won&apos;t be trying again any time soon.
		It was ... okay.
		I had several bowls, and they were weren&apos;t bad.
		The soup just didn&apos;t have anything over the soups I already make without a recipe or even set ingredients.
		In all honesty, a lot more precision might&apos;ve done wonders, but I don&apos;t have time in my life to try to convert imperial volume measurements into metric weight measurements.
		I mean, it can&apos;t even be done directly; mass and volume are entirely different concepts.
		Conversion must be done on a per-ingredient basis.
		It&apos;s just way too much effort, especially considering how much stress I&apos;m under right now.
	</p>
</section>
END
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